Royal Literary Fund

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Reception Gillian Allnutt
GA was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Newcastle .
“Gillian Allnutt”. The Royal Literary Fund: Former Fellows.
Wealth and Poverty Anne Bannerman
These bereavements also deprived her of the means of support. (Her mother had had a life annuity; no pension was forthcoming on the death of her brother.) Her friends attempted to find her patrons or...
Wealth and Poverty Frances Bellerby
FB 's poverty (which had made Charles Causley and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund ) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List for services to literature.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press.
39
Reception Phyllis Bentley
She was proud to be the second woman ever elected to the committee of the Royal Literary Fund .
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
258-9
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Bentley
The Royal Literary Fund paid EB fifteen guineas (very generous according to its usually class-based scale of awards).
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Health Mary Matilda Betham
MMB had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey reported...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Matilda Betham
She applied to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was...
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Some time after printing her Vignettes: in VerseMMB was planning a book to be called Crow-Quill Flights. A certain incoherence of style in the preface (which is all that survives) suggests that it...
Wealth and Poverty Amelia Bristow
AB first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Amelia Bristow
AB again applied to the Royal Literary Fund and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Publishing Amelia Bristow
She included a dedication to her 152 subscribers. It reached a second edition the same year, and a fourth, as Elizabeth Allen; or, The Faithful Servant in 1832.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 572
In 1827 she told the...
Publishing Amelia Bristow
Her title continues, being an Outline of the Religious and Domestic Habits of this most Interesting Nation, with explananatory notes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 621
Her preface says she had collected subscribers, was proud of the names obtained...
Wealth and Poverty Frances Browne
Despite an annual Civil List pension of a hundred pounds, and payments totalling £120 from the Royal Literary Fund over the past seven years, FB declared bankruptcy.
McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Star of Attéghéi</span&gt”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
41
, No. 3, West Virginia University Press, pp. 295-18.
298, 315n11
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Wealth and Poverty Frances Browne
She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice , the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment...
Reception Frances Browne
Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...

Timeline

1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...

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1790

The Royal Literary Fund was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.

1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...

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1984

The Authors' Foundation was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors and had help from the Royal Literary Fund ; it had Antonia Fraser and Michael Holroyd

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